Hand Foot Mouth disease

20102012love wrote:

My son has a very bad cause of hand foot mouth disease. He has it really bad In-between his toes. Do any of you mommies have any remedies that help soothe your little ones pain? I keep asking his doctor but they are no help. Thanks for your time.

There really isn't much u can do except kids panadol, maybe calamine lotion... My kids had it bad: hands, feet n in their mouths my daughter ended up in hospital so fingers crossed it don't get that bad for u

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20102012love

Thank you. Why did she end up in the hospital? I'm asking because my son has it very bad it's going away on his face but he has it all over his legs and his little toes are really bad. I'm going to call the doctor again tomorrow.

From what I've been told it's a herpes infection... Causes blisters on your hands, soles of your feet n in bad cases in the mouth.. Is contagious but can only be caught once

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20102012love

Thanks for the info cherub!! He's almost all better now phew!

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20102012love

Pretty it's a virus that they get. You get it from contact from someone who has it. It's not a form of herpes that's a different virus. This hand foot and mouth starts with a fever for 3 days then they get a rash that turns to blisters on their hand feet and mouth. Some kids get it on there bottom. It's awful cause sometimes they get it in their mouth and don't eat. My son had it really bad on his feet. The doctor said it just goes away after a week but it's very contagious. I never heard of it either but it's awful.

When you say it goes away in a week, does that mean all the blisters go away? They are all over my LOs body and keep getting worse (we are on day 4). He is still eating a little and drinking so I don't have huge concern but just wondering how his body will look in a week

My son (3) started with a fever on a Friday, fever broke on Saturday night, blisters showed up on Sunday morning, saw the pediatrician on Monday. It will be 2 weeks this coming Friday and his blisters are, for the most part, all gone. There are some on his feet that I can still see but they look better and better every day. He shared with his sister (1) and the course of the virus was almost identical, except that she had a lot more blisters over her whole body. There are different strains of the virus so you can get it more than once.

Boy was I upset when My 3 year caught this fortunately it never got to bad but we did find that Luke warm baths followed by calamine lotion seemed to ease her itchiness plus tons of Popsicles to keep her hydrated cause the blisters made it all but impossible to eat or drink

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aubrey0201

My son had it when he was about 1&1/2 and it was horrible!!! He didn't get blisters anywhere but his mouth, but they were horrible! He cried and cried because they hurt so bad... I was right there with him because I didn't know what to do for him!

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TXmomX6

My two year old has this now and it is just terrible. She is covered with blisters just about head to tie.

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